Sarra Manning started her writing career on the music paper, Melody Maker, than spent five years working on the legendary UK teen mag, J17, first as a writer, then as Entertainment Editor. Subsequently she edited teen fashion bible Ellegirl UK and the BBC's What To Wear magazine.
Sarra now writes for ELLE, Grazia, Red, InStyle, the Guardian, the Mail On Sunday's You magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Stylist and the Sunday Telegraph's Stella. Her YA novels, which include Guitar Girl, Let's Get Lost, the Diary Of A Crush trilogy and Nobody's Girl have been translated into numerous languages. Her first grown-up novel, Unsticky, was published in 2009, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me in 2011 and Nine Uses for an Ex-Boyfriend in 2012
Sarra lives in North London.